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Nothing To Write (Writing Exercise)
Is there nothing to write? Can I really sit here, still, and observe everything and everyone around me and have no ideas for which I can hand craft into a literary sculpture? Is there nothing to write? As I watch the birds fly by, playing aerial games through the park, is my mind so void of creativity, so empty that I cannot find something for which to wordsmith? Is there nothing to write? Has the Muse stopped whispering invisible images of tangible pictures, for with which I could make come alive on my pad of paper? Though the clouds blow across the atmosphere and the wind lifts the dust into flight creating a fiery red, pink, and purple sky. Though the horizon is aflame like fire and the smells of cypress and dandelions season the invisible wind currents that rustle the leaves and move the trees in a whistling dance; is it possible that I still have nothing to write? The planet is spinning, life is happening, experience and wisdom is training every man. Babies suckle; men work, mothers love, and lovers make passion come alive to sing intimate melodies… And yet I have nothing to write.
What is the point of this prose? The point of this is the theme of my whole site: If you are a write...Write. I submitted this prose on one of the critique site I like to hang out at and several people had good stuff to say; a few, however, didn't see the point or like it at all. One person sent me a message that said this: "...You are right, you had nothing to write, but the fact that you wrote anyways and I read it, totally wasted my time.." Did that bother me? Nope. I appreciate all opinions that people leave me. I was not trying to create a literary masterpiece, I was in a writing slump and was determined to make myself write through it. I sat down, took out my pen and paper and sat, and sat, and sat. I had nothing, instead of putting my pen away I chose to make the pen and paper connect. I remember thinking, 'I have nothing to write, is that possible?', so what did I do, I started my first line, Is there nothing to write? Write because you are a writer, and when you go through dry spells, don't worry about writing the next best seller, just write something...even if it is a waste of time to someone else to read it...you just saved them from doing something worse. |
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